غيبت مشروعيت سيستم در سينماي ايران و مقايسه آن با سينماي امريكا

Absence of System Legitimacy in Iranian Cinema and a Comparison with American Cinema

Cinema has a dual function: it reflects the society and its changes, and it can create new world through which the society can see itself in another way, thereby cinema can cause social change. One of the manifestations of this duality is in cinemaʹs relations with the state and state legitimacy. This paper presents an argument on system legitimacy in cinema with attention to the views of Weber and Habermas on the legitimacy and legitimation of rational systems. In the political cinema of the world today, attention to the subjects presented by cinema and their effects on cultural and political systems is increasing. American cinema has had remarkable success in the subject of government legitimacy, and in most cases reflects and establishes the legitimacy of the government and political system (on a macro level). Even movies critical of the political system have an ultimately positive view toward the political system and thus never lead the audience to anti-system conclusions.But in Iran this case is nearly reversed and the element of system legitimacy is almost absent. This shows recent changes in the Iranian society and the decreasing legitimacy of the political system among the people, and also indicates the (conscious or unconscious) efforts of